Agreed. It’s worth pointing out that this is a sponsored post, so they’re gonna make their pitch regardless.
In my experience, semantic search systems are very hard to test and don’t always return great results when given a very small or vague query, which seems counter to how people are taught to think about search.
And then if you want to do a hybrid search with reranking, those network calls start to add up and degrade the UX.
And then each month, there’s a new post about some new architecture that promises another search accuracy or performance boost, but you’ll need to rebuild the entire search system to find out if it’s effective for your use case.
In my experience, semantic search systems are very hard to test and don’t always return great results when given a very small or vague query, which seems counter to how people are taught to think about search.
And then if you want to do a hybrid search with reranking, those network calls start to add up and degrade the UX.
And then each month, there’s a new post about some new architecture that promises another search accuracy or performance boost, but you’ll need to rebuild the entire search system to find out if it’s effective for your use case.